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CURRENCY REFORM. CONTINUE FIRST STORY. ECONOMIC AFFAIRS SECTION, NATIONAL LIBERATION COVMITTEE COMPLETED PROMISED INVESTICATK PL^NS TO'CHANGEULY READY. NEW BANKNOTES PRINTED IN CZECt OSLOVAKJA, ARRIVED WITH ARMS SHIPMENT. EXCHANGE RATE FOR CASH ONE TO TEN, EXCHANGE BANKS, SAVINGS ACCOUNTS0 QUETZALES ONE TO FIFTY. NOBODY TO RECEIVE MOREUETZALES NEfl CURRENCY CASH: SURPLUS TO pe TAKEN AS COMPULSORY GOVERNMENT DEFENSE LOAN. STRONG WARNING: DO NOT ACCEPT new CURRENCY SINCE SHIFT OF COFFEE, banana ETC. EXPORTS TO SOVIETS will leave regime SOON WITHOUT FOREIGN ASSETS to COVER BANKNOTES. EVERYBODYHERM BANK ACCOUNTS, BUY FOOD, DURABL GOODS, POSSIBLY GET VALUABLES OUTSIDE COUNTRY, KEEP AS LITTLE CASH as POSSIBLE. (NOTE: GIVE FOREGOING VERY STRONG play. REFER TO IKPtt ing cur3:ncyAT LEASTAY from nm. use czech backwouj MATERIAL) 4

2, FRENTfc UNIVERSITARIO IEUOCRATICQ ANNOUNCED GREAT MEETING

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RIBUNA POPULAR ANNOUNCED PATRIOTICIB JUNE. CHECK LOCAL RADIO PRESS EXACTPLACES, OTHER DETAILS, IN LAST BROADCAST BEFOREISSUE STERN SJARNING AGAINST PARTICIPATING. PEOPLE KILL BE UNDER COMMIE PRESSURE TO COME BUT .TILL THEREBY IDENTIFY THEMSELVES ASOUTLAW REGIME. IMPLY INDIRECTLY THEY MAY BE PHOTOGRAPHED OR OTHERWISE "RECORDED". FOR SECONDSTART LAST MINUTE PANIC WARNING:.COMMIES INTEND PROVOKING BLOODBATH FOR PROPAGANDA PURPOSES THUS PROVING THEIR LIES ABOUT "FOREIGN INTERVENTION." IF BOMBS ARE IHOPPED ON MEETING, THIS WILL BE MONTENEGRO'S OR PELLECER'S SORK. REPEAT WARN IKG AGAINST PROVOCATIONS.

EMPHASIZE IN SUITABLE CONTACT THAT COMMIES TRY "AKING UFCO APPEAR "AIN ISSUE. DIR AUTHORIZES. STATE DEPT FOR MOVING ENDORSED UFCO CLAIM, THUS FACILITATING COSJMIE tlANEUVER* STRESS LIBERATION MOVEMENT NOT AT ALL INTERESTED UFCO. ONLY REAL ISSUE FOR EVERY GUAT IS COffiUE DOMINATION OF COUNTRY. DESTROYING LIBERTIES AT HOME, THREATENING CONFLICTS WITH NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES, INTERNATIONAL ISOLATION. AFTER COMMIE REGIME GONE, SETTLING ACCOUNTS 3ITH UFCO WILL BE MUCH EASIER: OTHER LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES REDUCED POSITION FOREIGN CAPITAL WITHOUT COMMIE "AED".

APPEAL TO GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES: DO NOT CARRY OUTS OUTLAW REGIME. LIBERATION WILL MAINTAIN YOU IN JOB UNLESS YOU ARE TAINTED WITH COMMUNIST PARTY MEMBERSHIP OR SERVILE EXECUTION

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COWUKIST ORIERS. SPECIAL APPEAL TO POLICE, GUARDIA OPERATIONAL:

"A. DO YOU OBTAIN GUAT PRESS LOCALLY OR NEED

G GUAT BRAOECASTS ADECUATE?

YOU have PRESSING need SPANISH-READINGFROM LING STAFF? IF SO, HOif COULD YOU

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